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Many of our seminars and public events this year will continue as in person or as hybrid (online and in person) events. Please check our website listings and Twitter feed @STICERD_LSE for updates.

Unless otherwise specified, in-person seminars are open to the public.

Those unable to join the seminars in-person are welcome to participate via zoom if the event is hybrid.

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Events on or after 17 December 2021

Friday 14 January 2022 14:30 - 17:00

STICERD Public Events and Lectures
Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy Launch Event: Making Equality Work

The Hub for Equal Representation in the economy will be officially launched the 14th of January 2022. Prominent academics and business leaders will come together for this event and share knowledge and strategies to set t...Read more...

Various speakers

ONLINE

Tuesday 25 January 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
Accountability under political polarization

Political polarization, by distorting how citizens process objective information about government performance, can undermine electoral accountability. We study whether citizens in a highly polarized environment can be nu...Read more...

Alberto Simpser (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México)

ONLINE

Tuesday 01 February 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
Interest-based Negotiation over Natural Resources

Over the last two decades, developing countries have seen a sharp increase in external demand for land and other natural resources. Despite hopes that these outside investments would spur local development, host communit...Read more...

Alex Hartman (University College London)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Wednesday 02 February 2022 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Neurodiversity at Work - Opportunity or Exploitation?

In this talk Dr Doyle, from the Centre for Neurodiversity Research at Work will discuss both sides of the Neurodiversity Movement coin. A seemingly new narrative in employment and the business press, the Neurodiversity p...Read more...

Nancy Doyle (Genius Within)

ONLINE

Tuesday 08 February 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
Hosting Media Bias: Evidence from the Universe of French Broadcasts, 2002-2020

What role do journalists play in slanting media content? Because media bias can crucially impact political and social outcomes, we study the relative role of journalists and owners in shaping media slant. To do so, we bu...Read more...

Julia Cagé (Sciences Po)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Friday 11 February 2022 12:00 - 13:00

Joint Econometrics and Statistics Workshop
Debiased Inverse Propensity Score Weighting for Estimation of Average Treatment Effects with High-Dimensional Confounders

Please register to attend: https://lse.zoom.us/j/82688220867...Read more...

Yuhao Wang (Tsinghua University)

ONLINE

Monday 14 February 2022 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa

We consider the effects of climate change on seasonally migrant populations that herd livestock i.e. transhumant pastoralists in Africa. Traditionally, transhumant pastoralists benefit from a cooperative relationship wit...Read more...

Nathan Nunn (Harvard University)

ONLINE

Tuesday 15 February 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
Can We Sustainedly Inoculate Individuals Against Misinformation in the Global South

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Horacio Larreguy (Harvard University)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Friday 18 February 2022 12:00 - 13:00

Joint Econometrics and Statistics Workshop
Matching for causal effects via multimarginal optimal transport

Please register to attend: https://lse.zoom.us/j/81404118660...Read more...

Florian Gunsilius (University of Michigan)

ONLINE

Monday 21 February 2022 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
Organized Crime and Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities Infiltrated by the Mafia

This paper studies the long-run economic impact of dismissing city councils infiltrated by organized crime. Applying a matched difference-in-differences design to the universe of Italian social security records, we find ...Read more...

Alessandra Fenizia (George Washington University)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 22 February 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
How Does the State Replace the Community? Experimental Evidence on Crime Control from South Africa

Throughout the developing world, citizens often rely on mechanisms other than the state’s justice system to deal with crime. A common form of informal crime control is mob vigilantism, the physical punishment of criminal...Read more...

Anna Maria Wilke (University of California, Berkeley)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 24 February 2022 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
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Michael Callen (LSE)

ONLINE

Thursday 24 February 2022 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
TBC

We provide a decision theoretic analysis of bandit experiments. The bandit setting corresponds to a dynamic programming problem, but solving this directly is typically infeasible. Working within the framework of diffusio...Read more...

Karun Adusumilli (University of Pennsylvania)

ONLINE

Thursday 24 February 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms

Many scarce public resources are allocated at below-market-clearing prices, and sometimes for free. Such “non-market” mechanisms necessarily sacrifice some surplus, yet they can potentially improve equity. In this paper,...Read more...

Piotr Dworczak (Northwestern University)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 28 February 2022 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
Worker Beliefs About Outside Options

Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers’ beliefs in a represe...Read more...

Benjamin Schoefer (Harvard University)

ONLINE

Tuesday 01 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
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Alan Wiseman (Vanderbilt University)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 03 March 2022 12:30 - 17:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
To invest or not to invest in sanitation: the role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power

We exploit novel data collected within a randomised controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact inve...Read more...

Bansi Malde (University of Kent and Institute for Fiscal Studies)

ONLINE

Thursday 03 March 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Simultaneous Search and Adverse Selection

We study the effect of diminishing search frictions in markets with adverse selection by presenting a model in which agents with private information can simultaneously contact multiple trading partners. We highlight a ne...Read more...

Piero Gottardi (University of Essex)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 07 March 2022 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
Food vs. Food Stamps: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia

Governments seeking to provide food assistance have a choice between providing in-kind food directly to beneficiaries, or providing vouchers that can be used to purchase food on the market. To understand the differences ...Read more...

Rema Hanna (Harvard University)

ONLINE

Tuesday 08 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
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Dawn Teele (University of Pennsylvania)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH